Its official: Eberron rocks

[Zappo]

Did they put subliminal messages in the cover art or what? I'd better be careful!

 

[Cam Banks]

I preordered Eberron from amazon.com many weeks ago, and it arrived last Tuesday. I'd intended to mine it for ideas and use it as a design reference, but it's such a gorgeous book and so well done that it's really making a good case for being the next campaign setting I run, after my current Age of Mortals Dragonlance campaign winds up.

It really is one of those books which makes me say, "Bastards!" when I read it. Not just because it's full of ideas, concepts, and elements that I really like (action points, pulp action, recovering from long conflict, etc) but it has so much in common with a setting I'd been csaually putting together since the Setting Search was over that I'm now more or less forced to abandon that completely (down to the living constructs and diplomatic gnomes).

My players will decide, though. I didn't give them a choice when we ended my Elizabeth Willey-inspired Birthright campaign and started playtesting the Key of Destiny, so this time they're calling the shots. Of course, half of them have already had a look through the Eberron campaign setting book and are talking about it in expectant tones...

Cheers,
Cam

 

[WizarDru]

Did they put subliminal messages in the cover art or what? I'd better be careful!

One of my players brought it over last night, and it's really nice. The initial review is that it has lots of nice things, particularly the feats and new mechanics. It looks like a lot of fun, and the artwork is, IMHO, really good.

I think WotC got their money's worth.

 

[Inez Hull]

Heh.
I shudder to think what I paid for all this, because I sold THE LOT for A$50, which is about US$35.

Ouch!

Next time you feel the need to offload manuals try Peter White's (on George St in Haymarket) they have a fair sized roleplaying section and offer prices a bit better than the complete reaming you copped.

 

[Inez Hull]

It's on York St across the road from the QVB (you know, that one-way street on the opposite side of the QVB from George St with bus-only traffic and all the bus stops lined up on it's eastern side).

Lemme guess, then you walked a few dooors down and blew your $50 at Galaxy. Tell me I'm wrong.

 

[Mystery Man]

Does this bandwagon come with an eat in kitchen?

I took a nice long look at it at the bookstore yesterday....

and promptly put it back.
Thanks, but no thanks. Glad, its found an audience though.

 

[Brilbadr]

Heh.

I went in to the FLGS to buy Complete Divine and nearly got Eberron instead.

Probably next time.

Hah, and right before that I went to the second hand book store and got rid of the folowing (only because I don't use them and I'm moving house):

Conan d20 (mint condition)
Arcana Unearthed (mint)
Diamond Throne (mint)
AU DM's Screen (mint)
Kingdoms of Kalamar CS (close to mint condition)
Midnight (close to mint)
Exalted (close to mint)
Exalted DM's Screen (mint condition)
Dragon magazines 296-310 plus issue 319 (fair to excellent condition)
Dungeon magazines 96 and 110 (ditto)

I shudder to think what I paid for all this, because I sold THE LOT for A$50, which is about US$35.

I'm sure there were alternatives to selling them to the heroin-addicted second-hand-bookstore-guy and his dizzy girlfriend, but I'm time-destitute these days.

um, which bookstore/city... those are aussie dollars right...

 

[Hand of Evil]

I like it and the more I read from its pages the more impressed I am. Sure it was not my setting, sure there are a few things I would have done different but you know that is just petty jealousy, ECS is a good, strong peice of work.

A tag line I would put on it; it is better than Forgotten Realms.

 

[wizardneedsfood]

I was the same way. I was interested in getting the book, but there were a few other things I'd planned on getting first. So when I walked into the book store and saw it sitting there, I picked it up and thumbed threw it and was blown away. Great stuff.

And maybe I'm cheesey, but I like the ocean names and stuff.

 

[talinthas]

they're lame, dude =)
"Sea of Rage" is fine for a nickname or something, but come on now, do you think that it sounds right for an actual name? Did the ancients of eberron go out and say "Hey, i think this ocean should be the sea of lost souls. that way, we can just say, Hey ma, i'm going with billy and gromlech over to the beach of lost souls for a picnic. If we don't come back, please res us." It's silly, and we all know it =)